I liked the styling and it has promise, but I could not get FreeWPS to deliver. It is simple, which is good, but probably too simple. I could not create a page (I kept getting errors) and I could not see how you could really manage content – e.g. organise menus etc.
It may turn out to be great, but not yet.
It was not too difficult to lose the ghastly green freeWPS default and replace it with a more tasteful blue. I am becoming a bit fed up of blue colour schemes, but blue is the school colour and a lot of what I do is school-based. See the result here
In the search for a “user friendly” cms that can be used to build a “real” site as opposed to a nuke-style chatty blog/forum type site, and which can handle a variety of authors with different levels of access, I am looking at FreeWPS. You can see my installation here
First impressions are pretty favourable. It adopts the KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) philosophy, which is a very good thing. The template system could not be easier and it works – really very well. It seems to serve pages quickly and I can see it being well used by non-techies. I hate the green “default” design, but it should be easy enough to change it. I need to experiment more before I know whether it is good for setting up links etc.
More later…
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